Philosophy and the Humanities in Belarus: Between Ideology and Pragmatics

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Abstract

[In Russian]

In article the transformations which occurred in the area of
the humanities in Belarus after the collapse of the USSR are analyzed.
Through the comparison with «crisis consciousness» of the
humanities in the Western Europe the author gives a generalising
vision of various ways with the help of which the humanities in
our country came out of the ideological crisis: the official way of
forming of a new state ideology; the ethnocentric way of national
revival; the Eurocentric way of re-integration in a context of the
European culture. The special attention is paid to the processes
and problems of formation of philosophical community in Belarus.
The author establishes the socio-historical reasons of initial
rigid polarisation of the intellectual environment from Belarusian-
speaking («nationalists») and Russian-speaking («cosmopolitans
») and shows the deadlock (unpromising) character of
this opposition at the moment.